Okaaa I started stretching my ears and everything looked to be fine, but when I got to about a 4g I started noticing that one of my ears looked thicker than the other so I downsized back down to 6g. Idk if its bad placement or just from wearing tapers for too long or what, but I wanna go up to about 7/8s so I need to know what to do

Some photographs would be helpful. How long did you take stretching to 4g? Also it is not considered a good idea to wear a taper as jewelry, because your ear's fistula heals in a cone shape instead of a cylinder shape. It is good to buy a pair of plugs at each gauge size and wait several months at each size before stretching to the next size.

Well to be honest I did my 6g and 4g in the same day (I know that was stupid) and yeahh I think I should've did more research on tapers before I started stretching, and thanks someone told me 2-3 weeks